reproducing discovery groups dynamic churches international is a non-profit service organization....
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Presents
SPONTANEOUSDISCIPLE MAKING
REACH YOUR COMMUNITY BY
ReproducingDiscovery
Groups
UNDERSTANDING OUR PART IN THE GREAT
COMMISSION
Our Vision
Dynamic Churches International is a non-profit service organization.
Our Vision:
To have reached every person with the gospel of Jesus Christ through the
reproduction of equipped
witnessing disciples.
How to Use this Training
Read Workbook and start on your own.
Pastors, train your Leaders and begin. Train new leaders as you have need.
How to Use this Training
Provide training for other Churches until there are enough Discovery. Groups to reach your community with the gospel of Jesus Christ!
How to TeachSimply follow the text, describe the diagrams and discuss the questions as you read through the written script emphasizing the main points.
Do not add a lot of extra thoughts, as this will tend to complicate and confuse.
It will also make this training less reproducible.
How to Teach
Do share your own passion and excitement for the things you are teaching.
Be sure to give personal examples of how God has changed lives (including your own) through the application of these principles.
Contents of Workshop Understanding Our Part in the Great
Commission Elements of Spontaneous Disciple
Making - Prayer Engaging Lost People Finding People Who are Open to the
Gospel Discovery Groups
Content of Workshop Discovery Group Experience Our New Life In Christ Dynamic Basics Workshop Baptism Discovery Group Leader Development Choosing Our Priorities What is God Saying to You?
Seeing the Big Picture
God’s Eternal Purpose is to Save a Lost World
“The Son of Man (Jesus) came to seek and to save what was lost” Luke 19:10
Seeing the Big Picture
Jesus said:
“Father, I brought you glory on earth by completing the work you gave me to do”
John 17:4
Seeing the Big Picture
If God appeared in this room right now and asked,
“Did you as an individual or as a church, complete the work I gave you to do?”
What would you say?
Seeing the Big Picture
Do you understand God’s
purpose for your life?
God’s Purpose for You
Jesus said: “….as the Father has sent me, I am sending you” John 20:21
God’s Power: The Gospel – Romans 1:16
God’s Purpose for You
God’s Purpose for His Children: Share the gospel – Luke 19:10
God’s Strategy: Make Disciples of all Nations - Matthew 28:18-20
God’s Purpose for His Church
God the Father’s Command
“And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he (Jesus) commanded us. 1 John 3:23
God’s Purpose for His Church
Jesus’ Command
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-35
The Great Commission
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey
everything I have commanded you.”Matthew 28: 18-20
The Great Commission
We are to Disciple Nations
– Every Person -- Every Nation!
What is a Disciple?Is a Convert a Disciple?
A Disciple is:
A person who has received Christ and is following the teachings of Christ!
A Disciple is a person who is living like Christ not just learning about Christ!
Principles of Growth
All Healthy Living Things Grow
God has built into His creation the inherent capacity of healthy living organisms to grow and reproduce.
The Church is a Living Organism!
Principles of GrowthPrinciples of Growth
The Physical Family
► Baby
Baby ► Child ► Teen ► Adult ► Child
► Teen
The Physical Family
► Baby
Baby ► Child ► Teen ► Adult ► Child
► Teen
Growth takes place best In theContext of a Family, but it also requires
a lot of One-to-One Nurture and Training
Growth takes place best In theContext of a Family, but it also requires
a lot of One-to-One Nurture and Training
Middleton Family Tree
Principles of Growth
Note to the Leader: Show a diagram (on a chart or PowerPoint slide) of your own family tree. Hand out a sheet of paper to each person and have them pair-up and draw their own physical family tree. Include Grandparents – Parents – Spouse – Children – Grandchildren – Great Grandchildren etc.
Principles of Growth
Many Churches resemble a Spiritual Orphanage more than a Spiritual
Family!
In an orphanage, the orphanage keeper and a few assistants try to care for a large number of children.
They ring a bell; the children get up and get ready for breakfast.
They get them ready for school and send them off.
When they return from school they supervise them as they play and do homework.
They ring a bell and the children come for dinner, get ready for bed and so on.
The orphanage keepers – God bless them - do the best they can – but it will never be a family as God intended.
Principles of Growth
God’s Church Should be a Network of Spiritually Reproducing Families!
Principles of GrowthPrinciples of Growth
The Spiritual Family
► New Christian New Christian ►Disciple► Discipler ► Leader ► Disciple
► Discipler
The Spiritual Family
► New Christian New Christian ►Disciple► Discipler ► Leader ► Disciple
► Discipler(Baby) (Child) (Teen) (Adult)
Spiritual Growth takes place best in the context of a Spiritually Reproducing Family! It also requires a lot of One-to-One Nurture
and Training.
Spiritual Growth takes place best in the context of a Spiritually Reproducing Family! It also requires a lot of One-to-One Nurture
and Training.
Spiritual Children
By Spiritual Children, we are referring to the Reproduction of Disciples by Disciple-Makers
Are the people in your church or ministry being genuinely Transformed into fully
devoted disciples of Jesus Christ?
Spiritual Children Are they Loving one another as Christ
has commanded them?
Are they Sharing the Gospel?
Are they Reproducing by Equipping other Spiritual Children?
How can you Experience such a Church or Ministry?
Where Do We Begin?
We are to begin by making disciples in our own community (Circles of influence) and God will send these equipped disciples out to make more disciples of Jesus!
Where Do We Begin?
Acts 1:8 says,
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
Where Do We Begin?
You alone do not know and could not reach every person in your community, but do you realize that every person in your community is known by someone in your community!
Where Do We Begin?
If you could disciple the people you can reach and they do the same, everyone can be given the opportunity to receive Jesus Christ and become His disciple!
Understanding Our Community
People in our community tend to gather together with other like-minded people.
Anthropologists call these segments “Silos”. (Circles of influence).
Understanding Our Community
These could be large or small and may be formed around racial lines or various affinities because they have common interest. Families are mini silos. Your Church is also a silo.
Understanding Our Community
Each silo has its own unwritten understanding of who is “inside” and who is “outside” their silo.
Extraction Evangelism
Traditional evangelism uses the extraction method to reach these groups.
Extraction Evangelism
That means they try to contextualize the gospel to make it acceptable to the group they want to reach and send someone to them who is considered by that silo as an “outsider”.
Extraction Evangelism
They feel they are successful if they reach one person and bring that person to their “church silo”.
Extraction Evangelism
This is difficult to do and it is also a huge transition for the person they have reached. It often means that you have separated that person from his/her “natural silo”.
Extraction Evangelism
The new person learns the language and culture of the “church silo” – making him/her an “outsider” to their former silo.
In doing this you cause hurt and your actions are disruptive to their community.
What’s the Problem?
This extraction evangelism method can make it almost impossible to ever reach the rest of this community.
What’s the Problem?
Satan is pleased, he knows he has lost a few individuals, but he also knows you have settled for a few people when you
could have reached the whole family, silo, community and nation.
What’s the Problem?
Satan even encourages extraction evangelism!
So, How Can We Reach these Lost People?
We must acknowledge these community structures and see the individual as an entry point into the family.
As we disciple these families they become gateways into their silos.
So, How Can We Reach these Lost People?
Silos reach out within their communities and even to other communities and so they become highways - reaching whole nations.
So, How Can We Reach these Lost People?
Focus on planting the Gospel into every existing Silo that could spread to more and more people and could in time establish a new church with, for, and by the people of that silo that would keep on reaching their own silo!
*The above insights are adapted from the book Contagious Disciple Making by David L. Watson and Paul D. Watson
So, How Can We Reach these Lost People?
Jesus came to;“Seek out and save the lost” (Luke 19:10)
and in John 20:21 Jesus said, “…as the father has sent me, I am sending you.”
“Seek Out and Save the Lost”
Our job is to “seek out and save the lost”
– every last one of them!
Is it possible?
It must be our goal,
so, how can it be accomplished?
More to Come!
The following Sessions explain the step by step process to help you reach your community and nation!
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